Cameroon’s National School of Local Administration, NASLA, and the Local Governance and Resilient Communities Project, PROLOG, have signed a CFAF 844 million agreement to strengthen administrative and financial management in 145 local authorities. The 12-month program will train about 2,000 local elected officials and staff in the Adamawa, East, Far North, North, North West and South West regions. The memorandum of understanding was signed on August 31, 2026, at PROLOG’s headquarters in Yaounde, according to information published separately by NASLA and the Ministry of Decentralization and Local Development, MINDDEVEL. The ceremony was chaired by Decentralization and Local Development Minister Georges Elanga Obam. It brought together the World Bank’s PROLOG task team leader in Cameroon, the project’s national coordinator, partner government agencies and representatives of decentralized local authorities. The program will focus on administrative and financial management, human resources management and civil status services. PROLOG said 1,937 participants will be trained in two sessions scheduled for October and November 2026. NASLA said the financial management component is intended to improve the management of local ...
2026-09-03 01:55:08